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47458 storms past the closed box at Lochmuir with the 14.05 Birmingham NS to Aberdeen. July 1980
Is it just me or does the buffer beam red look like slapped on lipstick? Just me then....
Was that in the day when silver roof generally meant a SF loco?
Other than some of the 47/7s which had it when in large logo livery I always associated silver roofs with Stratford.
I remember in the mid 80s on the ECML just outside Edinburgh we always used to wait for a nightly freightliner service, possibly originating at Craigentinny, which occasionally turned up a silver roofed effort which I seem to recall always were SF locos, often accompanied by the sparrow shed logo.
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Another great addition to an already superb line-up of Edinburgh themed locos.
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A quick catch-up session on Railbrit's "new images" found me these diesel shots on the Wavey route:
http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=31014
http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=31037
http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=31046
Just trying to imagine the racket that would have been heard during the first photo, with the sound reverberating around the trees. As the caption states 'accelerating' as well so would have been a nice old din!!
Nice to see a 37 picture as well , as much as I know photographic of such beasts are few and far between.
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Mate, I love that shed. When I'm up there next I shall drink a toast to its memory - if there's anything remotely resembling an ordinary saloon bar in the vicinity these days, that is
Oh there are saloon bars for sure in the very near vicinity. Whether you'd want to go in them is another matter altogether ;-)
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And now, a short intermission:
http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_edin_t/0_edinburgh_transport_railways_leith_central_deltic.jpg
DELTIC rests at 64H in June 1959 after travelling light loco from Carlisle.
Via the Waverley Route.
Come on you lot, this find deserves Five-Star billing
Definite brucie bonus points for that....
Here's another big beastie at Leith Central..
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Leith Central, with DMUs and Jockoes aplenty: http://georgestrainp.../p64089868.html
Impeccably timed posting with pictures of Edinburgh 101's or should I say met-cams' 'Chard.
Currently got green Farish on WB getting attention including SC numbers etc
In that picture does anyone know if that is an overhead warning panel on the front glass of the unit and if so is it just the one?
Can anyone confirm if this was the norm for units of this era?
Thanks
CJ
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This one is my favourite albeit taken at Waverley
Absolutely love that picture. Was never old enough to see such things but doesn't stop me trying to model them.
Hope you don't mind me posting this of PP in her cab stripe guise.
60100 her fellow 64A straggler also had the yellow stripe in later life. I'm not if '41 got it or not though.
What platform is Palatine standing at in the picture. Is it one of the round the back platforms, 8 or something these days?
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well seeing as I'd nothing better to do, D1975:
What a great picture. That's jaw dropping and a great resource for me. In particular the mixed colour rake of coaching. Superb.
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And for the first time, a nice broadside of D1970, at a very unexpected location!
http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=27278
That's a new picture for me and a great one at that.
Cheers for that one 'Chard!! :icon_thumbsup2:
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Awesome shot of Hawick pilot and the last loco to move on the route before official closure, Heljan Clayton D8606, what a pretty engine, Millerhill '71:
Superb. I'm not sure I've ever seen a picture of a clayton actually on the shed. Seen plenty in the yard I think but not on shed.
Superb.
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Hi interesting stuff there. I take it these are being printed using shapeways? I've used this company myself for a couple of years getting a feel for what is possible using 3D printing. N gauge requires alot of though in the design phase in order to produce something that can be cleaned up without destroying the print but I would gather this isn't so much of an issue cleaning up a 4 or 7mm part. Recently I've tried SLA (laser cured resin) somewhat more expensive (around 10 times the cost!) but the initial results are much finer and therefore less cleaning up involved. As a comparision I've attached a picture of my LNER K3 body which was printed using SLA - the loco is in grey primer while the tender is in it's 'raw' state.
What CAD program are you using? I've found that the basic version of Alibre Design is a good entry point into 3D modelling and able to produce most shapes with a little thought.
Looking good and I'm watching with interest what you produce next.
Atso, any chance of a high resolution post of that K3 body in N. I followed your old Rmweb threads with great interest but I'd kind of lost touch in this new forum. I was extremely interested in your progress.
This and all the work in this thread is really quite exciting. The thought of what could be achieved is mind boggling.
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There is a rather nice uncaptioned picture just here: D1971, one of the 64B nine, at a mystery location!
Must confess, I made involuntary noises upon finding this. Not seen that angle of H***** station before, and the giveaway - yet misleading - headcode is a classic!
Nice find 'Chard. I find that a great site but not too easy to search for pictures. You done well...
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Opening today's account with this people shot that is the counterpart to the scan of Bruce McC's letter from Edinburgh agreeing to the brakevan trip on the last Kelso:
Love the 64A gronk close-up there....
Also would love to see some photographic evidence of 27 action on the route as well, I've never seen anything either.
Good work 'Chard. Most enjoyable viewing.
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Great boxing day viewing 'Chard. So many I hadn't seen before despite trawling the superb railbrit site many times.
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Not much but there's a small picture of the crash here
You need to scroll though the pictures. No further info though.
There's another few pictures on the scran website, but I guess you need full access to get the full size ones.
I'm assuming you've seen the picture of the pranged D364 at Shankend on the wonderful railscot website?
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Sorry about the thread hijack 64B-oy, but this has turned into a Waverley Route signalling resource centre, for which I am very grateful. Cheers!
Hey no problem, I've got what I need and its never anything other than a treat to see what else comes up Waverely Route related.
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Cheers to everyone.... great pictures and just what was needed.
Jermey..... lovely pictures, but at the same time sad but so interesting to see the colour view
'Chard...... well dug out, that's a great picture of Shankend on the signalbox website and that seals the deal. Shankend it'll be..
It'll be a test of my scalescene's ability but I look forward to getting started.
Thanks again for the great replies.
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Righty-ho, 64B-oy. We're not well served by pictures of Shankend box, which runs counter to what you'd expect, given its landmark status visible from the B6399. However, the kinda 'modular' NB designs that characterise the route (excluding the rather unusual Brunthill and Fountainhall boxes, BR Standards both, and Galashiels) are well represented in the usual books on the line. There are web pics but they are not immediately obvious, even to me, which is why the only reference I've been able to give here is to Bruce M's Hawick shot.
On www.cairndhu.net you've got Bruce McCartney's classic shot of the tall Hawick South box, also reproduced on p36 of Rowbotham's 'On The Waverley Route,' which book also contains Riddings (Sth) from the steps end (p74). The same author's 'The Postwar Years' has Whitrope box, steps end (p42), the rather different Gala box (p34), Heriot (p30), Hardengreen (a very tall box, p27), and last for now in the definitive Siviter Waverley Route volume, Riddings (Nth) (plate 37), Steele Road (50, steps end but obscured by tree), Riccarton Jct (Nth) (70), Whitrope (89, very clear shot of stairs and WC), and last of all Falahill (154).
Tip-top response....can't ask for more than that!!
I've got these particular publications so I'll be sure to check them when I get home (currently working away from home).
Thanks for your input.....will be sure to post progress, if or maybe when I get started!! once the xmas drink and food wears off!!
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Looking to build a signal for my N gauge layout and thought it would be nice to do a representation of a Waverley Route box considering all the stock is that way inclined.
I'm not looking reproduce it 100% but rather I want a box which 'captures' the Waverley Route feel, so from that point of view perhaps one of the most famous boxes on the route would have to be Shankend.
I've managed to google a couple of pictures of the box, mostly in its currently holiday home guise but still useful.
Just wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of any useful looking pictures, in particular no one seems to have taken a shot from the steps end of the box for some reason!!
Thanks in advance
MHB
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I was just wondering (evenmore so after seeing Clagmeisters comment) what, if anything is left at Millerhill now?
keith
The two tracks on the far left (left of 26001 in the first picture)are still in place, but everything to the right is gone and is now massively overgrown. The yard in the upper left background behind the fuel tanks is still present in some form or other.
Somwhere near where the class 40 is in one of the later pictures there is a spur now for units to sit when they run in from Newcraighall, so they can sit off the main double track into Millerhill.
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I'll get that back on then. As if by magic. This one was latered by someone with the grey sky added, certainly better than roof rafters.
cheerio
Claggy
What a great picture....captures that Scottish feel just right. :icon_thumbsup2:
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Superb pictures Bruce, especially the Millerhill one. I just about remember the track in that format before it was ripped up.
What year would youe picture be do you know?
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Morning folks
I'm up early due to working in Finland at the moment......
Feel quite at home actually with the damp dreich weather, very kind of them to lay on Scottish weather for me!!
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Longdrem & The Pinkhill Branch
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Really really nice stuff....
Some of those pictures have a real feel of an East Lothian village to them somewhere on the ECML.
Also absolutely loving the Edinburgh based traction as well, something I'm trying to recreate myself in N gauge. Keep posting your pictures as they are truly great to see.